Virtualization and Containers

Hi We have two site main DC and DR site and I want to replicate a vm from DC to DR and we have mediaagent on both site.What is happening right now is when replication happen it first take backup (dedupe) and then restore from backup to DR site and while restoring process full vm original size and it is choking the bandwidthThen i take the call with support and he suggested to check the “replicate using secondary copy option” and choose DR mediaagent as storage in secondary copyNow when replication trigger it first take backup in main DC site then aux copy trigger from DC  to DR site then replication happen but it still restoring the vm from main DC not DR. Can anyone help here?

Hi team, I am trying to install MSSQL agent on server which is running Windows 2008 R2. I am getting below error while installing. Please help me on this.install.log   

Hello,do anyone know when Commvault will support OLVM 4.5?regards Juergen

Hello !There are many helpful links and docs about VSA Indexing v1 to v2 migration, requirements and post-migration tasks.. But as of now, I have not yet found the answer to my question regarding my environment.  We have a single VMWare VCenter, lets call it VCENTER.This single VCENTER server manages multiple locations, like USA, CANADA, INDIA, etc.., where each time we have a corresponding VMWare Datacenter, with ESXes, VMs we need to backup, and MAs. In our Commvault environment so far, for internal reasons, I have created a VMWare Pseudo client for each location, like :VCENTER-USAVCENTER-CANADAVCENTER-INDIA Each point to the same VCENTER, but the VSA configuration for proxies, SPs and target VMs to backup are different as they’re pointing to the servers for each location.They were all created using indexing v1.So far I can only migrate using the indexing v1 to v2 workflow.My question is, is it possible to update only 1 of those pseudo client, like VCENTER-INDIA, AND to not affect th

we are doing Planned Failover for Vmware to Hyperv Migration Activity  ,but we are seeing missed VMs in target host ,after failover job completed,multiple missing VMs  are created  for single VM  how to overcome this issue , is there any way we can prevent this missing VMs .

Hi, We will implementing vm livesync to DR, but considering bandwidth limitation can we set livesync data from secondary copy. https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/expert/100033_live_sync_options_for_subclient_vmware.htmlwhat i learn from this link is no option to choose from which backup copy we doing livesync. so does livesync limitation on primary backup only?

Hi All, Commvault indicated in the documentation how to virtualize the  physical machinehttps://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/create_virtual_machine.htmlbut I still have a question about the behavior after virtualizationThe Windows client is planned to be virtualized and has iSCSI disks connected.After virtualization and connecting these disks to the virtualized machine, will it be necessary to perform a full backup?The same disks with the same data will be on the virtualized machine.Will Commvault maintain continuity of backups in such a case?  

Hello Team. Customer has moved on-prem vmware ms windows vm’s to azure as azure vm instances. They say they have the vm’s in 4 separate subscriptions and provided 4 subscription ID’s. The CV Azure Client has only 1ea. field for a subscription ID. To protect these vm’s, will 4ea. CV Azure Clients need to be created ?

Hi Does anyone has experience how to backup Vcloud Director named disks?  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Director/10.4/VMware-Cloud-Director-Tenant-Portal-Guide/GUID-8F8BFCD3-071A-4E45-BAC0-A9B78F2C19CE.html TksFT

Hi All,I am trying to run Backup-CVVirtualMachine -Name $vm -ClientName $vcenterbut receive thisI tried to reinstall CVPowershellSDK but it did not help me much, the error stills the same :( 

Hi Vaulters,We have a project to deploy a virtual MA into an ESX environment.It will backup other VM’s in the ESX environment.Are there any specifics that I need to be aware of?Will SAN transport be available rather than NBD?I don’t see any specific Virtual requirements in the docco so let me know if there are any, thanks. 

I am trying to configure backups for ca-west-1 ( calgery) region which we recently expanded our AWS infra in the Canada region.unfortunately I cant see the instances from region shows up in the Commvault console.I reached my AM to know more above it , but its still yet to reach internal teams and get resonpse but I know the documentation did not mentioned the region in the supported list yet.By any change any of you had similar need and got it fixed with a patch or addtional key setting ? 

Is there a solution or recommendation on how to backup / restore Kafka with Comvmault? ThanksMike (Please move this question to “Commvault Q&A”)

Hi,we have 2 vCenter and we use the vCenter backup from commvault.Most of the VMs moved from vmcbdf01 to vcenter1.But in the client computer groups i see them on both as active.But why when they are only hostet on vcenter1. Why are the VMs active on vmcbdf01?I have retired the client on vmcbdf01 but then he uninstalled the agent of the client when there was it installed :-(Now some clients are twice in my list.One (with only the SQL backup) is hostet on vmcbdf01.The other one with VMInstance is hostet on vcenter1.Why that?What means the VMInstance?I backup it with the vCenter backup. Is this a twice backup now?How does the VMInstance come into being? That wasn't the case before.RegardsDennis

Hi all, Trying to recovery my SLES file server backup as a Vmware virtual machine but I am getting faced with these errors. I have already done the 1 touch recovery backup.  Any tips on where I can start looking? Also, what network configurations should I use if I want to recover this without disrupting my production network?   

Trying to deploy CV to protect my Hyper-V cluster (intend is to use intellisnap). However after installing the product and trying to configure Hyper-V as hypervisor, it just doesn’t discover any nodes in the cluster nor discover individual nodes. The access node will be available during the first discovery try and then after few seconds it comes back with no error and now access nodes won’t be available.Setup:Hyper-V 2022 2 node clusterPermissions for account used – part of Hyper-V administrator group, Users group, Administrator group, backup administrator group. The account have full control on the hyper-v cluster.Commcell server v 11.34.5 (initial app setup complete – storage and plan added) and Array configured.Mediaagent and VSA installed on both Hyper-V nodes (so total 3 access nodes) There is no log or messages in Events. Any pointers to get my hyper-v discovery working. Looking for inputs from this great community. 

Hello Communinty, I would like to know some details about backup in Azure for VMs. I checked that disks in Azure has access from public all networks. Please let me know what can be the impact on Commvault if we use option to Disable public access and enable public access. I know it is related to snapshot copy, etc. Another question is:Do we have some threat to exposied our data to the internet. Regards, Michal

Hey, i would like to restore a VMDK file directly to a datastore from a Hypervisor (VMWare) without attaching it to a VM. Am I just unable to find the function, or can Commvault really only restore single VMDK files on a MediaAgent or directly on a datastore with the requirement to attach them to a VM?Shouldn’t be this a easy implementation as the process already exist (Restore Disk to VM). Just removing the attache step. 

HiBeen plagued with this problem for a while. Support has not been able to crack it yet either. I have 4 Media Agents and 2 are using CBT and crash consistent backup options for the Intellisnap and work fine. The other 2 Media agents are also using CBT but using Application Consistent (quiesced backup) backup options for Intellisnap and these Media Agents will sometimes freeze up the Virtual Disk Service and the backupcopy fails for the remainder of the backup copies. I cannot open the process manager on the MA’s when this happens and end up have to reboot the MA to get things back on track. Not a lot of info but chucking this one out there to see if anyone had a similar experience. 

Hi,I am unable of restoring a full virtual machine from Nutanix AHV using Command Center.Restoring a Full VM from vCenter is working however.Restoring the VM from AHV using the Commcell Console is also working.Problem was noticed in version 11.34.20. I upgraded today to version 11.34.27. That is no solution.Anyone any idea how to solve this?Regards,Bart

Dear ones, The client requests a survey of VM growth from January to date to find out how many are being protected month by month, do we have some kind of report that provides this information on the growth of Virtual Machines?

Dear Team,I have three node Hyperscale cluster. Comcell server is outside hyperscale running inside a Windows VM. version 11.24 At present we are backing up 50 vmware VM clients and few SQL clients. We are procuring a large capacity Hyperscale to add another new 600 Virtual machines to get backed up. I want to move the exisiting SQL clients and 50 vms to new hyperscale. What is the best approach , setup a new comcell and configure everything like storage policies Dedupe and new VSA servers or add the new Hyperscale machines as new setup of media agents and configure backups? Please advise 

Hello,VM was migrated to different vCenter, now it has two BackupSets old and new. Could you say please how to remove old one?  

While attempting to initiate backup procedures, I observed that while I could back up the entire virtual machine (VM), I encountered difficulty in selecting specific files and folders when creating the VM group.In my Azure Stack HCI environment, VMs are deployed, and my objective is to exclusively back up files and folders rather than the entire VM. Please refer to the image below for context.We have followed this document foradding the HCI environment. https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/essential/adding_azure_stack_hci_hypervisor.htmlCould you kindly provide guidance on whether it's possible to back up only files and folders within VMs which are on Azure stack hci ? If so, could you please provide the necessary documentation for configuring this feature? 

New vCentre added and unfortunately the account used to add into Commvault had visibility and admin rights over the entire inventory and not a specific folder as required. When a “Refresh datacentres, discover VM’s” action was performed every single VM appeared in the VM list. A subsequent modification adjusted the permissions on the account to limit it to the required folders and a repeat of the process did not reduce the VM count.I have now retired and deleted the vCentre object and the VM’s remain :-( Is there a scheduled clean up process to resolve this issue?  There was a single test VM group with a single VM and that was deleted before retiring the vcentre. I was hoping removing the vCentre and re-adding it would resolve the plethora of VM’s we do not want in the inventory.